linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: don't yell on unsupported brightness interfaces

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Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:44:10 +0200
From:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: don't yell on unsupported brightness
 interfaces

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:33:52PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015, at 08:46, David Herrmann wrote:
> > The thinkpad_acpi driver currently emits error messages on unsupported
> > brightness interfaces, giving the impression that someone will implement
> > those. However, this error is spit out on nearly every thinkpad in
> > production since 2 years now. Furthermore, the backlight interfaces on
> > those devices are supported by the i915 driver just fine.
> > 
> > Downgrade the error message to a normal pr_info() and stop telling people
> > to report it to IBM.
> 
> IBM?  Those reports go directly to me.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>

Thanks, Queued.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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